Hister
★ 1.2kGNU Affero General Public License v3.0Open Source — No PaywallSingle Container — single container — minimal hosting footprintSourceNo external DB
About
Hister is a self-hosted search engine designed to index content from websites a user has visited, along with local files and other knowledge sources. It focuses on privacy by keeping the index local...
Community Ratings
No ratings yetFeatures
- privacy-focused local indexing
- full-text search
- advanced query language
- local file indexing
- headless browser crawler
- traditional crawler
- multi-user support
- optional semantic search
- MCP integration
Details
- Last Updated
- Jun 11, 2026
- Created
- Jan 4, 2026
- Install Methods
- source
- Requirements
- latest GoNPM
- Runtime / Stack
- GoDocker
- Privacy & Independence
- No Cloud RequiredOffline Capable
- User Model
- Multi-User
- Deployment
Deployment: Docker Compose ✓Single Container — minimal hosting footprintsingle container
Docker Compose
1 service
no resource limits declared
needs persistent storage (1 volume)
compose.yml · @ 2d51bd2 · scanned Jun 5, 2026
services:
hister:
build:
context: .
target: release
image: ghcr.io/asciimoo/hister:latest
container_name: hister
init: true
restart: unless-stopped
read_only: true
security_opt:
- no-new-privileges:true
cap_drop:
- ALL
ports:
- '4433:4433'
volumes:
- hister_data:/hister/data
tmpfs:
- /tmp:noexec,nosuid,size=64m
# ...
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